68 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Lam. Anim. s. Vert., 2nd ed., vol. ix., p. 346 (not of 

 Desmoulins). 



Shell spirally sulcate and longitudinally striate, the suture 

 slightly impressed, marginate and subcrenulate ; sinus rather 

 broad and shallow ; rose-ash colour, purple-rose within the 

 aperture. Aperture oblong, canal short ; body-whorl rather 

 longer thau the spire. Animal unknown. 



Length, 28 mm. ; breadth, 10 mm.; angle of spire, 25°. 



Type in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



Hab. Throughout New Zealand. Specimens kindly given 

 to me by Mr, S. H. Drew- were dredged off Wanganui. 



Surcula trailli, Hutton. 



Button, Cat. Mar. Moll, of N.Z., p. 11 (1873) ; Man. N.Z. 



Moll., p. 42 (1880). Tryon, Man. Conch. (1), vol. vi., 



p. 206, pi. xxxiv., fig. 90. D. viaorum, E. A. Smith, 



x\nn. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), vol. xix., p. 497 (1877); 



Hutton, Man. N.Z. Moll., p. 44 (1880). P. huchanani, 



Hutton, Man. N.Z. Moll., p. 42 (1880) ; Tryon, Man. 



Conch. (1), vol. vi., p. 208 (not P. buchanani, Hutton, 



Cat. Tert. Moll, of N.Z., p. 4 (1873)). 



Shell fusiform, turreted, pale rose-colour ; whorls 8|, the 



first 1^ smooth, spirally lyrated, concavely shouldered ; suture 



margined, with about 16 oblique ribs. Aperture elongated, 



canal somewhat elongated, narrow ; sinus moderate, situated 



in the excavation. Animal unknown. 



Length, 21mm. ; breadth, 7 mm. ; angle of spire, 28°. 

 Type in the Colonial Museum, Wellington. 

 Hab. Throughout New Zealand. The type was dredged in 

 24 fathoms, near Stewart Island. Orakei,near Auckland (H.S.). 

 I quite agree with Captain Hutton that this is not the same 

 as Drillia amula, Angas, as suggested by Tryon {I.e., p. 206, 

 pi. xii., fig. 37), which occurs on the coast of New South 

 Wales. 



Surcula albula, Hutton. 



Hutton, Cat. Mar. Moll, of N.Z., p. 12 (1873) ; Man. N.Z. 

 Moll., p. 43 (1880); Pliocene Moll, of N.Z., Macleay 

 Mem. Vol., p. 49, pi. vi., fig. 22 (1893). S. antipodnm, 

 E. A. Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), vol. xix., p. 491 

 (1877) ; Hutton, Man. N.Z. Moll., p. 43 (1880). 

 Shell fusiform, white; whorls spirally grooved, with tine 

 growth-lines in the grooves, and a central prominent spiral 

 rib ; whorls 7^ ; aperture oblong, contracted below ; canal 

 short, recurved. Body-whorl nearly half the entire length of 

 shell. Sinus shallow, above the keel. Anmial unknown. 

 Length, 10 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. ; angle of spire, 30°. 

 Type in the Colonial Museum, Wellington. 



